Fathom Long Read | The Meaning of David Miller According to Bristol University Professor David Miller, ‘Britain is in the grip of an assault on its public sphere by… Read more > Multi-stage Coordinated Unilateralism: A Proposal to Rescue the Two-State Paradigm In this wide-ranging and hopeful essay, Cary Nelson aims to move the international conversation about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict away from mutual recriminations and… Read more > Fathom Long Read | Accommodating the New Antisemitism: a Critique of ‘The Jerusalem Declaration’ Download and print a PDF version here.  In this comprehensive critique Cary Nelson argues that the recent ‘Jerusalem Declaration’ on… Read more > Lara Sheehi’s Joyous Rage: Antisemitic Anti-Zionism, Advocacy Academia and Jewish Students’ Nightmares at GWU Fathom Editor’s Introductory Note. 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His latest book, Israel’s Moment: International… Read more > Fathom Long Read | Antisemitism and the IHRA at University College London For twenty years Cary Nelson was part of the elected leadership of the American Association of University Professors, serving as… Read more > Statistically Impossible: A Critical Analysis of Hamas’s Women and Children Casualty Figures How reliable are the casualty figures issued by the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry? The answer offered in this article is… Read more > ‘The Jews Are Guilty’: Christian Antisemitism in Contemporary America Alvin Rosenfeld holds the Irving M. 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In what is the most thorough analysis of her world view to date,… Read more > The jibe ‘Progressive except for Palestine (PEP)’ is a cynical political strategy to exclude moderate progressives from debates on resolving the Israeli-Palestine conflict In this essay, Philip Mendes argues that the new buzzword for Palestinian nationalists, 'Progressive except for Palestine,' aimed at progressives… Read more > UK-Israel 2021 | How Israel military tech (and doctrine) will make the UK better at fighting the hybrid warfare of the future Technology is radically transforming the battlefield, revolutionising doctrines of warfighting and counter-terrorism. ‘Hybrid warfare’ is the new reality. These changes… Read more > What should Biden do next on Israeli-Palestinian Peace and Iran? A review essay by Yair Hirschfeld Professor Yair Hirschfeld was a key architect of the Oslo Accords in 1993. In this review essay he assesses the policy frameworks being… Read more > ‘No solidarity with the victims and hostages, no word of empathy’: Reactions from European club culture to the Supernova Festival Massacre Tanja Ehmann asks why, despite the massacre at the Supernova music festival, parts of the European club culture scene have… Read more > The BDS Disinformation Campaign in the Modern Language Association In this comprehensive essay, Cary Nelson, former president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and co-editor of The… Read more > Israel, Gaza and the Holocaust: the growing online discourse of ‘competitive martyrology’ Alexis Chapelan and Matthias J. Becker of the Decoding Antisemitism project show how commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day against the… Read more > Palestinian Elections: As In 2006, A Dangerous Idea Elliott Abrams is Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was Deputy National Security… Read more > UK-Israel 2021 | Ambivalent Allies? Zionism, Israel and the Conservative Party from Balfour to Boris James Vaughan is Lecturer in International History at the University of Aberystwyth. His current research focuses upon the changing attitudes… Read more > UK-Israel 2021 | Mandate: The Palestine Crucible 1919-1939 Three years ago, a retired British army officer, Ian Westerman, wrote an article in Ha'aretz, entitled 'What did the British… Read more > Fathoming the Intellectual Revolution of our Times | The Disorientations of Lethal Journalism: On Western Media and the Arab-Israeli Conflict Richard Landes is a historian who taught at Boston University. His work focuses on apocalyptic beliefs at the turn of… Read more > UK-Israel 2021 | An interview with UK Ambassador to Israel Neil Wigan   BICOM’s Director Richard Pater spoke to UK Ambassador Neil Wigan shortly before the turn of the year about the UK-Israel… Read more > Opinion | Labour Party Conference 2021: ‘Significant progress has been made on tackling antisemitism, but there is still a mountain to climb’ I’ve spent most of the last week at the Labour Party’s Annual Conference, in my capacity as an elected member… Read more > Israel Election 2021 | ‘Why I am voting for the Labour Party’ Avoda, Israel's Labour Party, is the party that established the State of Israel. In November 2020, the ideology of Labour… Read more >